On 4/21/20 2:28 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
(regarding the abysmal state of MUAs these days)
... but it's pretty much the general state of affairs now.
And so you try to fight it, or you accommodate it.
Or some of each.
I find myself wondering:
- whether IETF participants are willing to change habits of using email
(e.g. using IMAP, and flagging or refiling messages that are too long to
read on mobile devices, so that they can be read and responded to later),
- to what extent existing MUAs could be used differently, or configured
differently, to make them more effective for IETF-style collaboration,
- whether it's feasible to improve some existing dysfunctional MUAs or
create new ones that work better, and
- whether IETF participants using existing dysfunctional MUAs are
willing/able to change those MUAs
From my current state of understanding, it seems like there's a lot of
inertia that would have to be overcome to make such changes.
At the same time, there seems to be at least as much inertia that would
have to be overcome to get any other collaboration system as usable,
effective, accessible, searchable, archiveable, free from vendor lockin,
etc. as email currently is, even in its current sad state.
Keith
